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/dɪskrˈaɪbəbəl/ Listen

Describable

adjective

Capable of being described.

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"Describable" Quotes from Famous Books

... between Briggs and his courier took place. Ours is a large hospital, and I had never to my knowledge encountered Briggs before that moment. I beheld a young fellow (he was only twenty-three) with a stout, healthy visage which wore a pleasant smile and would have been describable as roguish, only ... well, the eyes of a blind man, whatever else they are, are not conducive to a roguish mien. They were eyes not visibly damaged: nice blue eyes. And they stared at nothingness. I was ...

— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir

... reality runs solely through the egotistic places—they are strung upon it like so many beads. To describe the world with all the various feelings of the individual pinch of destiny, all the various spiritual attitudes, left out from the description—they being as describable as anything else —would be something like offering a printed bill of fare as the equivalent for a solid meal. Religion makes no such blunder. The individual's religion may be egotistic, and those private realities which it keeps ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

Words linked to "Describable" : expressible